alex rizkalla in collaboration with Igor for the 'Mulga wood project'

The cabinet of unnatural history, ‘souvenirs of the last century’Ocular Lab. Melbourne 2010

The cabinet of unnatural history, ‘souvenirs of the last century’

The cabinet of unnatural history explores a series of propositions concerned with contemporary ecological issues and the problematisation of collecting and archiving natural and ethnographic objects. First shown as a work in progress in 2009 as part of Brunswick West Sculpture Triennial. A vast collection of objects made of natural materials sourced from op shops and trash markets retrieved and recontexturalised as a sort of record / archive of lost diversity both natural and cultural. Part one : ‘from the forest’.